Elizabeth Brown

First Name: Elizabeth
Last Name: Brown
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Poison
COD Method/Implement: 
strychnine
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that she came to her death by voluntarily administering poison with her own hands, at her Fathers House in the District afforesaid

COD Short Description: 
strychnine poisoning
Original Record: 
5141

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